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But are these parcels that sit vacant for decades really doing so because of ease or lack thereof of assembly? I would support such a tax not kicking in for say 5 years. And probably only applying in downtown/beltline, at first anyway.

Need a land value tax or some sort of hybrid. It's crazy that in the middle of a housing crises it's cheaper/easier to hold onto empty land than retain the housing.

This reminds me of the parcel here https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0583373,-114.1370467,89m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu that was Calgary Transit public parking, put in place in the mid 1950s when the city build out was only 3 blocks beyond it, probably for the residents of the towns of Montgomery...

I can't believe ~2700 people are against this, that's incredible. All I can think of is that it's a 'give an inch and they'll take a mile' mentality, ie if we allow any towers our suburban communities will be destroyed with towers everywhere.

Does anyone know what happened with this?

Look what I found (1996)

Is it just a case of only needing a single property vs needing to spend a much longer time in order to buy two adjacent ones in order to build 6 story?

I wonder if they're maintaining a partially demolished building T2 to retain parking underneath it?

I'm going to call this a win because this is the 1st St SW interface that is going to be replaced with retail:

100%. And it wouldn't necessarily backfire with heritage, encouraging those owners to densify, because one of the upcoming incentives will be tax reduction/abatement. As well in some communities there is the ability to sell off unused density of heritage sites to other development sites.

Whereas in Calgary we rely on the benevolence of owners and corporations to preserve our historic sites. Works pretty bad compared to the rest of the country.

One of the desired changes to that station for years was to allow 17th Avenue to continue eastward into the Stampede grounds. Is that still in the plans and when would we expect that to happen?

gross ;)

arguably with work from home and other factors making downtown less of a mandatory office centre it might make more sense now to flesh out these alternate areas

Yeah the issue with that intersection is for cyclists going north or south it would appear they have the right of way, and for motorists coming from the east or west it appeared to just be a curve to the left. So both traffic might think they have the right of way. The stop signs brings it to...

For the longest time Chinook was envisioned as an alternate city centre with a major shopping mall and ctrain station already there but I'm not sure if any actual development towards that aim has really happened. Also I think Northpointe in country hills was the north equivalent, but even though...

Yes the stop sign was the fix referred to

fixed, both sides

I'm curious if they will do similar for its counterpart at 15th Ave and 4th St NE

Couple of thoughts I get Wong's concern that one has to go to the back alley to find out about the history, assuming it's even noticed. Seems like a way to rectify that would be to have a sidewalk facing plaque(s) that directs people to a much larger alley mural. The argument that no one...